75 Years of Marital Bliss Will Pull Anyone Out of the Post Holiday Blues

January 3, 2012

Welp, it happened.  As freshly hung 2012 calendars start to open, revealing the start to a New Year, I can’t help but get that little twinge of the holiday hangover blues.  Ugh.  I’m guessing most of you can relate to this.  It happens every year for me when I come down from the elated joy and excitement of spending the happ-happ-happiest time of year with family and friends, receiving all the unnecessary (but much appreciated!) presents and getting all that extra time off work (wink)… only to have it all come crashing back to reality… I’m telling you, it’s a tragic yearly tale.

Haha.

But I’m proud to say that 2012 proved to be my shortest holiday hangover ever when I came across this gem on my Google News search…

World War II veteran, Robert Erskine and his beautiful bride, Susan, are not only Britain’s oldest couple, but they are also its most celebrated.  Not spending a day a part since WWII, this forever young couple clicked up their heels on their 75th wedding this past New Year’s Day and gave this little lady one more reason to give the blues a much needed buh-bye!  

I mean, Hello?!?  Can you say CUTEST?!?!

courtesy of dailymail.co.uk

Silver?  Yes.  Golden?  Of course!  But it’s not every day you hear of a couple celebrating their DIAMOND Anniversary; so, it seems to be a rare treat to find that Robert and Susan Erskine did just that!  Surrounded by three generations of family and friends in Edinburgh on New Year’s Day, the couple was  inundated with love, cards and well wishes, and rightfully so. 

Robert, 100, and Susan, 99, prove that wedding vows still mean the same no matter how much time may pass.  Susan was even quoted saying, “Marriage doesn’t seem to be valued now the way it used to be, with all these celebrities getting divorced after just a few months.  I just don’t understand it at all.” (dailymail.co.uk)

And mayhaps Mrs. Erskine doesn’t understand because she knows just how important love is, but how daily living can sometimes get in the way.  So, with her realistically in love approach she continued on, “We’ve taken life one day at a time, and walked through it hand-in-hand with one another.”

((((sssssiiiiiiiggggghhhhh)))))

Seriously, how can you not be warmed from the inside out after hearing that?  Congrats, Robert and Susan on 75 years of love, laughter and memories and cheers to many, MANY more years of happiness :)

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